Slightly off the wall maybe for this thread, but I can't help be reminded at this time of year of my first Scalextric, probably as an eight year old in 1963. Green Aston Martin DB4, Blue Ferrari 250 GT, both with working lights - great!

Later replaced when I went over to an Airfix set with a banked section and an Eagle and Honda, probably 1968. Hey, it's still in my loft...

Shows what can be done with today's camera technology!

Hope that all you dads who have bought sets for your offsprings this Christmas are suitably excited...

Great clips. Particularly love the Mansell BTCC wet race - watched it live, and good to see again.

On the copyright thing - the biggest myth is that you can multiply the number of downloads or views by the cost of the official product and call it a ''loss'' for the copyright holder. I never look for specific races on youtube so by definition I wouldn't have looked through a catalogue and bought it. Capitalism is about supply and demand and the perceived value of goods. The thing that businesses struggle with is the fact that technology has allowed consumers to make that decision for themselves.

When videos came out there was a lot of doom-mongering amongst TV execs, now they make millions on lavish box sets. The record industry said they would go out of business, itunes, etc also make millions.

By and large if I really want something that I can watch again and again I will buy a DVD. If someone trying to make a business of selling old racing footage and they actually have a brain they would be posting clips on youtube and then linking them on threads like these and giving simple and easy access to the official copy by online download. If you fail to keep up with technology you will die, simple as that.

BTW - that BTCC race was BBC coverage I (and all the TV license payers here) technically paid for it anyway :-)

I wasn't quite sure if this link should go in another thread; in an ideal world, we'd have a thread dedicated to 100 years of Lancia, but considering the current state of the company, it appears to me that people would rather not think about anything that's occurred within the last 10 years at the firm...

Anyway, here's an enchanting sequence of photos taken from the celebrations in Turin a couple of months back, set to highly appropriate music; appropriate if you're a Lancista that it...